Chapter 30: Predicting Exam Questions

After Sineipu left, the three of them continued toward the tower with lingering fear. At first, none of them spoke, until Luo En broke the silence: "Do you remember, Harry? Last time we heard Nawei say that Sineipu and Qiluo teamed up to steal the Sorcerer's Stone. It seems this is true."

"I really don't understand why he would steal it," Harry said. "And I also don't know why the two of them seem to have such a good relationship."

"Perhaps for money," Zhang Qiu interjected. "Neither shampoo nor hair growth lotion is cheap."

Harry and Luo En couldn't help but laugh, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud; it was very chaotic inside the Invisibility Cloak.

"Don't worry, anyway, Deng Buliduo already knows. Nawei asked Haige to notify him last time," Harry said easily, holding back his laughter. "Perhaps he tacitly approved, perhaps he will come out to stop them at the last moment. In short, we don't need to worry."

In a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere, the three of them arrived at the top of the tower. They put down the box, took off the cloak, and sat on the ground with a relaxed look, preparing to rest for a while.

"By the way, who is coming to pick up Pei Xu tonight?" Luo En asked.

"Your subordinate Lu Jianxing, pays respects to the Immortal," a deep male voice said in a foreign language, giving Harry and Luo En a fright.

"Oh, you've already arrived," Zhang Qiu said in English. "Let me introduce you. This is Harry, this is Luo En; they are both my good friends."

"Hello, two gentlemen," Lu Jianxing's accent was still as strange as last night.

"Harry, Ron," Cho Chang winked when she said Harry. "These are Chinese Aurors sent by the embassy to help us. This is Lu Jianxing, Shen Lian, Jin Yichuan—all very enthusiastic and capable wizards."

"Cool," Luo En looked at the three handsome black robes. "I want to be an Auror in the future."

"Then we will take Pei Xu and leave first," Lu Jianxing said. "Please pay attention to the newspaper."

"Look at the newspaper, what does that mean?" After watching the three of them fly away on broomsticks, Luo En asked, "Is it a Heavenly Dynasty proverb?"

"It's just the literal meaning," Zhang Qiu said. "Perhaps they will send Pei Xu to St. Mungo's Hospital."

The next day, they specifically found a copy of the *Daily Prophet* and indeed saw a piece of news that was neither big nor small.

"Recently, Hit Wizards cracked a smuggling case on the Scottish border, capturing a total of twelve suspects including the main culprit William Li, seizing a total of 2333 gold Galleons, and seizing a large number of smuggled illegal Muggle items and illegal magical creatures on the spot.

The case-handling personnel also discovered that one of the animals was transformed from a young illegal Animagus. This poor victim calls himself 'Pei Xu.' Currently, the relevant departments have transferred the boy to St. Mungo's Hospital. We are actively contacting his parents, and we welcome those with information to provide relevant details."

The accompanying picture was Pei Xu sitting on a hospital bed with an unhappy face.

In Luo En's puzzled eyes, Zhang Qiu explained: "This is what I requested, hoping to hide Pei Xu's true origin."

"Alright, but indeed, Pei Xu was sold to Haige by smugglers in the first place," Luo En said with relief. "He doesn't look very happy, but at least he's safe."

"I left a letter under the cushion," Harry said. "He will understand."

"Hey, then Pei Xu's matter is also solved," Luo En said. "Shall we play chess tonight? I haven't played for a long time."

"I'm going to review for the final exams," Harry said. "Deng Buliduo reminded me last time; there isn't much time left in this school year."

"Harry, these exams are just things for a few years from now."

"Five weeks, not a few years," Harry corrected. "I should have started reviewing three weeks ago, but I was distracted by messy things."

"Come on, you should have known this content long ago," Luo En looked at the two people who ran to the library all day. "What is there to review?"

"Luo En, I suggest you also review well. If you fail any courses, you might not be able to advance to the second year," Harry said helplessly. "And haven't you noticed? The professors have also started assigning repetitive homework."

"Alright, but I prefer to memorize books in the dormitory," Luo En still stuck to his bottom line of not going to the library.

Harry made a review plan for himself in the library. He prepared to break down the knowledge points of the History of Magic course first and distribute the things to be memorized evenly over the next few days. But Zhang Qiu told him that Professor Binsi was a person without new ideas, and she gave her first-year history textbook to Harry, telling him that it recorded the exam points she had asked seniors about over the years.

Only then did Harry discover that the *Werewolf Code of Conduct of 1637* and the *Full Story of the Goblin Rebellions*, which gave him a headache, had never been tested. It seemed these two chapters were not suitable for exams in Professor Binsi's heart.

History of Magic was one of the subjects that gave him the most headache, but now with the exam focus provided by Zhang Qiu, things suddenly became simple. Harry reorganized his review plan. He found that once the review tasks for History of Magic were streamlined, the remaining time became generous.

Under Zhang Qiu's suggestion, Harry decided to prioritize the four courses that required practical operation, because he needed to allocate time for practice.

There were quite a lot of spells learned in the first year, but Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts were tested separately. What was learned in Charms class were the Levitation Charm, Unlocking Charm, Aguamenti, Summoning Charm, Separating Charm, Scouring Charm, Leg-Locker Curse, Petrification Curse, Densaugeo, and the Tap-Dancing Spell. Harry guessed that the simplest Levitation Charm and Aguamenti might not be tested, and from an educational perspective, the school shouldn't force students to master Densaugeo and Unlocking. As for the Scouring Charm and Petrification Curse, if multiple students were allowed to cast them repeatedly, that exam room would be quite difficult to set up. Harry guessed that the most likely to be tested were the Separating Charm, Leg-Locker Curse, Summoning Charm, and the Tap-Dancing Spell. Cho Chang told him that last year's test was the Summoning Charm, so Harry decided to focus his practice on the Leg-Locker Curse and the Tap-Dancing Spell, which he wasn't very familiar with.

Harry felt that the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam really wasn't easy to handle. Although he was already very proficient in the four spells taught in class, heaven knows what kind of mysterious exam questions Qiluo would come up with. Harry could only make do by organizing the things in the book to ensure that at least he wouldn't get the knowledge mentioned in the textbook wrong.

The Transfiguration exam was said to be very flexible; anything attempted in class could be tested. This made Harry feel a bit worried; his Transfiguration could only be said to be average. But Zhang Qiu told him that the score for Transfiguration class didn't all come from practical operation. After the theoretical part was completed, the professor would add or deduct points based on the performance of the practical operation. This was to avoid some children with poor talent not being able to pass Transfiguration no matter what. Harry felt comfortable with this, because he had completed every theoretical assignment left in Transfiguration class, and he felt that none of them were difficult.

Potions was also an exam that required on-site preparation. Harry knew every potion this semester by heart, but out of caution, he planned to plan time to practice the Herbicide, Sleeping Draught, and Swelling Solution, these three potions with relatively moderate difficulty.

Next were the two courses of Herbology and Astronomy. There were quite a few knowledge points to memorize for Herbology, but Harry had already memorized most of them. He only needed to reorganize them a few times to check for gaps, which wouldn't take much time.

As for Astronomy class, Zhang Qiu told Harry that this course didn't have an exam; students only needed to submit a paper as a final assignment, and the professor would give a grade based on this paper. And the Astronomy professor was famously tolerant.

After finishing the review plan, Harry glanced at the class schedule and found that he had forgotten Flying class. But flying was too simple for Harry; he really didn't need to review for this course.

When Harry spent an evening organizing the Transfiguration theory and returned to the dormitory, he found that Luo En wasn't memorizing books at all; he was playing Wizard's Chess with Nawei.

"Hey, Harry," Luo En said in a light tone. "You remember what we heard Qiluo saying last night, right?"

"Uh?" Harry paused. "He threatened Sineipu to provide him with the Draught of Living Death; he should be wanting to sneak under the trapdoor. Oh right, he said he wanted to find a winning method for Wizard's Chess."

"As expected." Nawei nodded with a solemn expression. "Quick, let's continue trying. If there is Wizard's Chess, I must also be able to beat Qiluo."

Harry looked at the two who had started fighting on the chessboard again and shook his head helplessly. Then he lay on the bed, preparing to read some extracurricular books leisurely before going to sleep.

Harry reached his hand toward his bedside, and he suddenly discovered that except for the *Tales of Beedle the Bard* given to him by Luo En, the rest were all Soviet novels without exception. And after a little recollection, he discovered that these were all given to him by Teacher Yuri.

"It seems Yanayev's so-called little moves were to send someone to contact me in advance," Harry thought. "But he came to apply for a home tutor openly and honestly, and the classes he taught weren't bad either."

"He just spread a kind of thought, and it was I myself who made the decision; this doesn't count as anything," Harry didn't care about the private goods the tutor brought along. "And I'm quite grateful to Teacher Yuri; without him, I wouldn't have so clearly realized the real problems of the Wizarding World."

"The bloodline struggle, to put it bluntly, is a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Muggle-born wizards come to this world alone, and every Galleon of the old pure-blood families is stained with blood," Harry thought distractedly. "They propped up a monster like Voldemort to seize power for them, but no one can truly twist the Muggle-born wizards into a rope."

"Peverell, Weasley, Longbottom." Harry suddenly discovered that he and his friends seemed to be pure-blood wizards. "I must communicate more with Hermione; she is the true proletarian."

Harry opened *How the Steel Was Tempered*, which he hadn't been able to read through before, and savored the story in it. His thoughts drifted again to the trapdoor on the third floor.

"Refining stone into gold is nothing remarkable; people who live their lives in mediocrity are still mediocre no matter how long they live," he thought. "And Marx's theory can refine cowardly people into warriors like steel; this is the significance of a sage." ===== CHAPTER 31 =====